Donald Blythe

Donald Blythe (16 September 1954-) was the Minister of Education of the United States under President Garrett Walker briefly in 2013, before the leaking of his controversial reform bill led to his resignation. However, he was appointed as Vice-President of the United States by Frank Underwood when he became President.

Biography
Donald Blythe was born in 1954, and he joined the US Democratic Party, rising to become their representative for New Hampshire. He was respected and served in the House of Representatives for several years, and President Garrett Walker nominated him for Minister of Education in 2013. Blythe's focus was on education for much of his career, but he was a classic tax-and-spend Democrat and a way-left-of-center liberal. In January 2013 he came up with an education reform bill that would be one step left of Karl Marx's ideas, and Congressman Frank Underwood pretended to shred it up when Blythe presented it to him; Underwood had been entrusted with overseeing Blythe by Chief-of-Staff Linda Vasquez. However, Underwood secretly kept the bill and gave it to his newspaper contact Zoe Barnes, telling her to publish it to engineer Blythe's downfall. The bill was published by the Washington Herald, and its far-left ideas caused controversy against Blythe. At the same time as the bill's release, Underwood secretly had a group of six young men develop a new bill. Blythe, unaware of Underwood's involvement in the leak of the newspaper, decided to resign due to his own mistakes rather than make others take the fall for him. When interviewed by the media, he said that he would leave the bill in Underwood's capable hands.